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<blockquote data-quote="Maynard Keenan" data-source="post: 68175964" data-attributes="member: 81684"><p>A lot of people are racist. Here's thing thing, though: That doesn't mean a lot of people are evil monsters trying to hold black people down. We've got to get over that concept of racism as being representative of racism and its effect, or as even particularly relevant to our society. The "I hate ******" racist is rarely in any position of power or influence. Those people don't drive racial inequality. We have two problems driving racial inequality. One is legacy: for most of the time after the end of slavery, there WERE active policies that benefited whites and suppressed blacks, and these directly led to an unequal society. The second is less overt, implicit bias. It's what drives people to be more likely to hire someone who is white, even when a black applicant has equal qualifications. It's what drives people to be more wary around black men than white men. It's isn't an active desire to suppress anyone, but it's real nonetheless. It doesn't make you evil, it doesn't make you a monster, it makes you human. It's no moral judgment against a person to accuse of this, because it's universal to have biases. The only moral judgment is against those who refuse to acknowledge that it may be true, and refuse to do anything to compensate for it. These are the barriers that we must overcome now. We must work to acknowledge and suppress within ourselves any biases we have, and we must work to fix an unequal society that was made unequal by deliberate intent, even if that deliberate intent was not our own.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maynard Keenan, post: 68175964, member: 81684"] A lot of people are racist. Here's thing thing, though: That doesn't mean a lot of people are evil monsters trying to hold black people down. We've got to get over that concept of racism as being representative of racism and its effect, or as even particularly relevant to our society. The "I hate ******" racist is rarely in any position of power or influence. Those people don't drive racial inequality. We have two problems driving racial inequality. One is legacy: for most of the time after the end of slavery, there WERE active policies that benefited whites and suppressed blacks, and these directly led to an unequal society. The second is less overt, implicit bias. It's what drives people to be more likely to hire someone who is white, even when a black applicant has equal qualifications. It's what drives people to be more wary around black men than white men. It's isn't an active desire to suppress anyone, but it's real nonetheless. It doesn't make you evil, it doesn't make you a monster, it makes you human. It's no moral judgment against a person to accuse of this, because it's universal to have biases. The only moral judgment is against those who refuse to acknowledge that it may be true, and refuse to do anything to compensate for it. These are the barriers that we must overcome now. We must work to acknowledge and suppress within ourselves any biases we have, and we must work to fix an unequal society that was made unequal by deliberate intent, even if that deliberate intent was not our own. [/QUOTE]
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